Meteorologically speaking, rain is pretty simple: it’s falling water. So, too, is snow, which is frozen falling water and forms small flakes. There are several forms that cross between these two, however, that may cause a bit of confusion, and…
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Sleet, freezing rain. Sleet, freezing rain. Sleet, freezing rain. Some people, even weather men and women on the news, will use these two terms interchangeably, as though they’re the same thing. And they’re not too far off, truth be told…
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For many people, the only explanation needed for lightning is that it’s a bad thing. Hearing the thunder it creates is bad, seeing it is bad, and getting hit by it is DEFINITELY bad. Other, more curious folk may actually…
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How should you go about preparing your home for a hurricane? The destructive forces of hurricane winds, storm surge, tornadoes, flying debris, and floods are devastating to conventional wood framed houses and buildings. If you live in hurricane country, saving…
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For some, fog is an atmospheric condition that almost never manifests itself. For others, it is an omnipresent nuisance that makes traveling anywhere slightly riskier than usual, if not downright hazardous. As annoying as you consider fog, though, how much…
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To say that there are different types of clouds may strike some readers as a little odd. Clouds come in varieties? Preposterous! They’re just a bunch of big, white and gray fuzzy things in the sky. Case closed. Or perhaps…
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We all have heard of Global Warming, but few people truly understand the phenomenon and its danger to our mother, Earth. People often cite cold temperatures as evidence that the ‘warming’ is not taking place, but again this is a…
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Nature is unpredictable, and the weather is no big exception to that rule. It’s tough to figure out, just based on the appearance of a day, what might happen in an hour or two. If you’re trying to figure out…
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Snowflakes are amazing things. You can stare at these light, delicate crystals for hours, marvelling at their delicate beauty. No machine-produced snow even comes close. It’s even more amazing that these delicate snowflakes come from the same source as every…
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On September 11, 2001, three thousand people died in a terrorist attack on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. This was a horrible infliction of destruction. While the memory of those lost should never be forgotten, an equally…
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